Brightons Parish Church, Main Road, Brightons

Brightons Parish Church, built in 1846-7 by Brown and Carrick, is a restrained Gothic church. It has a T-shaped plan, with a single-storey vestry located to the rear. A small hall was added to the rear of the vestry in the early 20th century, followed by larger additions to the rear in the later 20th century. The front elevation is constructed of ashlar stone, while the side and rear elevations use stugged snecked sandstone with raised, droved margins. The church features a base course and an eaves course, along with stone skews and curved skewputts.

The front (north) elevation has a three-bay advanced gable with pinnacled buttresses flanking each bay. The central bay contains a two-leaf timber panelled door set within a Tudor arched opening. Above the door is a hood-moulded triple lancet window. The gable is topped by an angle buttressed, stone spired bellcote with louvred openings.

The east elevation's left side has an advanced gable with a triple window, while the right side is recessed with a single lancet window. 20th-century additions adjoin the left side.

The west elevation has a recessed single bay with a single lancet on the left, and an advanced gable with a triple window on the right. To the far right are a recessed single-storey vestry and hall, both with piended roofs, with later 20th-century additions adjoining the hall.

The rear (south) elevation is a three-bay design with a timpan gable in the center, though the central bay is partially obscured by the vestry, hall, and later 20th-century additions.

Inside, the entrance lobby features two flights of gallery stairs with cast-iron balusters. Vertically-boarded timber wainscoting covers the walls, and a timber and etched glass screen separates the lobby from the main body of the church. Raking north, east, and west galleries are present; the west gallery has a timber-panelled parapet supported on cast-iron columns. An organ, originally from a Glasgow church and rebuilt by Andrew Watt and Son in 1950, is also inside. A carved timber pulpit and communion table date from 1936. Above the pulpit are three blind lancets with a plaster hoodmould. The hall to the rear has a timber-beamed roof, springing from timber corbels, but this is largely concealed by a modern suspended ceiling.

Replacement glass is in most of the windows; two stained glass windows by Ruth Gollilaws were installed in 1993, flanking the pulpit. The pitched roof is covered with graded slates, and the majority of the rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Running along the north boundary is a dwarf snecked wall topped by cast-iron fleur-de-lys railings. A pair of square-plan gatepiers with chamfered corners and pyramidal caps support cast-iron gates.